Transcript The Coming of Long Knives

The Coming of Long Knives
FROM THE BOOK SING DOWN THE MOON
BY: SCOTT O’DELL
Patti Burroughs, Greensboro West Elementary
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Objectives:
 Students will recognize antonyms
to help them determine the
meaning and increase vocabulary.
 Students will recognize and read
words , demonstrating knowledge
of levels of specificity among
words from a variety of categories.
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Students will recognize and read
words that change f or fe to v in
their plural forms.
Students will recognize and spell
words with the ending –tion.
Students will understand the
selection vocabulary before
reading the story for the first time.
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Genre: Historical Fiction
The story is set in the past.
The plot includes events or
problems from that time.
Characters act the way people of
that time would have acted.
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 Details relating to clothing, homes,
speech, modes of transportation, or
tools are correct for that time and
place and help make the story more
realistic.
 Though the story is made up, the
characters may include real people,
and the plot may include actual
events.
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Read the following words and
tell me what they have in
common.
harm
strength
fast
help
weakness
slow
These words are antonym
pairs.
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What is an antonym?
An antonym is a word whose
meaning is the opposite or
nearly the opposite of another
word.
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Read the following words and
tell me what they have in
common.
people
The first three
words demonstrate
Americans
levels of specificity.
Navaho
Americans and
vegetable
Navaho are both
specific kinds of
plants
people
.
corn
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Look at the next three words
again….
Vegetable
Plants
corn
Who can name
a word that
would come
next in the level
of specificity.
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kernel
Read the following words and tell
me what they have in common.
knife
knives
life
lives
leaf
leaves
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The first word in
each pair is
singular. The
second word in
each set is
plural. You had
to change the f
or fe to v before
making it plural.
Read the following words and
tell me what they have in
common.
direction
destruction
starvation
duration
These words
review the
word ending
–tion.
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Read the following sentence:
I worked to help homeless
animals.
What would happen to the sentence
if I replaced help with harm?
The meaning of the sentence
changes because help and harm are
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Read the following sentence:
Bright Morning, a fourteen-yearold Navaho girl, lives with her
family in what is now Arizona.
United
States
Phoenix
Using the word Arizona,
what other words can we
use in the sentence that is
less specific or maybe
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more specific. West Elementary
Read the following sentence:
The leaves are gone from the
trees.
leaves
trees
What are the two
plural words in this
sentence?
How were these
plurals formed?
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Name some other words that
end in f or fe that we have to
change to a v to make plural.
shelf /
shelves
half /
halves
wife /
wives
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West Elementary
Read the following words and tell
me what they have in common.
I lost my sense of direction
while in the woods.
direction
Who can identify the
word in this sentence
that contains the suffix
–tion?
Who remembers the meaning
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Use your context clues.
“We will build new homes,” he
said. “When the Long Knives leave
we will go into the forest and cut
timber. We will build hogans that
are better than those the soldiers
burned.”
hogan
The Navajo family lives in a hogan
on the reservation.
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noun:
hogan
a traditional Navaho house
(p. 447)
I would have gone with them if I
had thought that in a few days
the Long Knives would leave and
we would come back to our village.
I would never have abandoned
them.
abandon
When the gold mines dried up,
many people abandoned the towns
that no longer had a reason to
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exist in that location. Patti
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verb
to leave
something
behind
forever
(p. 449)
abandon
Once they got off their horses
and two of them climbed up to
Rainbow Cave where cliff dwellers
had lived long ago. But they found
the houses deserted.
deserted
The tall weeds in the yard, the
broken windows, and the hole in
the roof was a sign to us that the
building was deserted.
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not lived in, abandoned (p. 450)
deserted
adjective
secure
The white soldiers had searched
the canyon and found no trace of
us. We felt secure.
Our liberty is secure because
many brave people have fought to
defend our civil rights.
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adjective
secure
safe from
harm or
danger
(p. 452)
With the Long Knives at their
backs…all the Navahos were
marching into captivity.
captivity
Douglas Wood, an engineer who
lives in California with his
American wife, is being held in
captivity by terrorists in Iraq
where he has been working.
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noun
captivity
the state of being held as a
prisoner (p. 449)
Fort Sumner 1864 - 1868
Websites of interest:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/f
eatures/immig/native_america
n3.html
http://www.citizensalliance.or
g/links/pages/articles/Expose
_Part_1.html
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